2. The overseas Chinese democracy movements
accepts the assistance from the Taiwan Nationalist party which accepts that a
unified China as policy. This support is just and it is internal to the
democratic enterprise in China. We oppose the Democratic Progressive
Party's Taiwan independence government using the guise of "supporting the
overseas Chinese democracy movement" in order to buy out specific
individuals to further its goal to separate China from Taiwan. This is
worse when Chen Shui-bian attempts to use "supporting the overseas
democracy movement" in order to conceal his own corruption. This
insults the overseas democracy movement. We express our strong anger and
objection!

3. Chen Shui-bian explained that he took
US$200,000 from the state affairs fund and handed it to the "overseas
democratic activist" Wang Dan. We insist that Wang Dan explain:

(1) In 2004 and 2006, did you receive US$200,000 from Chen Shui-bian?
(2) How did you use the US$200,000 for the "overseas democratic
movement"?

4. Chen Shui-bian said that Wang Dan took
US$200,000 in the name of the "overseas democracy movement"?
Wang Dan said that he was vexed because he "never asked about where the
money came from." This is treating the entire overseas democracy
movement as a bunch of idiots. We are not idiots. If Wang Dan is
"falsely vexed," then we are truly vexed. We will not permit
that the entire "overseas democracy movement" of which we are an
integral part of to be used by Wang Dan for a private transaction with Chen
Shui-bian. Every person in the "overseas democracy movement"
is involved. Wang Dan had better offer an explanation to the entire
overseas democracy movement.

5. At the September 23 conference of the
National Endowment for Democracy, when Huang Jiacheng asked Wang Dan whether
he accepted money from Chen Shui-bian and the Democratic Progressive Party,
Wang Dan issued a strong denial. He told the audience that "they
can audit my accounts." But at this time, Wang Dan is no longer
denying anymore. He is just vexed. Wang Dan's latest defense is
that Chen Shui-bian's donations "did not include any political
conditions."

Crap! "It did not include any
political conditions." This can only be true is you do not object
to the basic political positions, policies and assumptions of the donor.
If Wang Dan is against the Chen Shui-bian government's Taiwan independence
position and policies and yet he says that Chen Shui-bian gave him the money
"without any political conditions," then he must be deceiving
himself. Wang Dan is just looking the public straight in the eye and
lying.

6. Wang Dan said, "If necessary, I will
work with the investigative unit in Taiwan to identify the direction of the
money flow from Taiwan." Great, but not good enough. Wang Dan has
the obligation to address the question of the overseas democratic movement to explain
how Chen Shui-bian said that "he gave the fund to support the overseas
democracy movement" to you in order to explain where US$200,000 from the
state affairs fund went to. The "overseas democracy movement"
refuses to be the scapegoat for Chen Shui-bian.

1.
For the purpose of promoting democratization in mainland China and overseas,
we have been soliciting for donations in the USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe
and elsewhere. As a civilian organization, soliciting donations is one
of our major tasks. As the chairman of the China Promotion of
Constitutional Politics Association, the Beijing Spring publisher, a member of
the Chinese Scholars Association, the convenor of the Chinese Youth Human
Rights Award selection committee and the leader of other activities, I have an
inescapable responsibility.

2. Based upon
the current situation in China and the problems that we have encountered in
the past, we have established the following principles in accepting donations
for the purpose of promoting democracy in mainland China while protecting the
safety of our collaborators: no political conditions must be attached; no
contributions will be accepted from intelligence departments; no donations
shall contravene the local laws; all donations will be used for their intended
purposes; all government aid must be declared and reported; and all civilian
donations will honor the intent of the donors. These principles were
collectively determined: we have always observed these principles, and we have
informed our donors about these principles. We are happy to say that no
organization or individuals have ever contravened the aforementioned
principles to date.

3. The donations that
we have received were remitted into the tax-free, non-profit accounts of our
organization in accordance with American law, and then used for various
activities that are related to the democracy movement and the progress of
political activities in mainland China. Last year, we spent money on
humanitarian assistance, June 4 memorial activities, study groups, hiring
workers, training cadres, exchange of information, operating websites,
publishing and other activities.

4.
Through the investigation of our records as confirmed by our workers, we did
receive the donations as reported from the Taiwan donors by the media.
These donations came from various locations at various times to us.
Among them, many originated from the United States. We were informed
that these donations came from civilians. Our workers explained our
principles to the donors repeatedly. Since we were accepting donations
from the United States, we were unaware that they originated from the Taiwan
state affairs fund. Actually, before the case of the state affairs fund,
we did not even know what the state affairs fund was. After the state
affairs fund case broke open, we asked our donors about it. To date, the
donors have not explained to us where the money came from.

5.
Presently, we read from the media where our donations came from. We are
sorry about how we got involved in the case. We also express our deep
apology for getting our collaborators involved in this case. We will
continue to work with the donors to establish the actual circumstances and we
are willing to follow the legal process to clarify the truth of the case.

6.
In spite of the aforementioned problems, we continue to be grateful to all
those who are willing to support the overseas democratic activists and the
mainland Chinese democratic activists. The democratization of mainland
China affects not only the interests of the mainland Chinese people, but it
also means a lot to the stable and peaceful development of Taiwan. We
feel strongly about the support from the Taiwan government and the civilian
sector to support our activities against the Chinese Communist totalitarian
government.

7. As in the past, we will
follow our political direction and our policies on donations. We will
continue to solicit funds for the democratization of China. At the same
time, we will communicate and mediate with others so as to avoid unnecessary
problems.

8. The democratization of
mainland China affects the security, peace, safety, development and freedom of
the entire world. We ask the Chinese people all over the world to
support our enterprise through various forms of donations. We ask
everybody to publicize our intent and principles for funding and explain our
sources of donations. I thank everybody once again.

After Wang Dan made his
admission, did anyone say "I can't believe this"?
Nobody. Absolutely no one. Everybody believed it! They
believed it! The only difference is this:

Those who supported Wang Dan
said: "I believe Wang Dan took money from Chen Shui-bian!" But
he did not take enough. He should have taken more.
Those who opposed Wang Dan said: "I believe that Wang Dan took money from
Chen Shui-bian!" But he should not taken it. It was dirty and
rotten!"

What about me? I also
said, "I believe Wang Dan took money from Chen Shui-bian!"
But should he take it? I did not say. I only want to ask:

1. Wang Dan, if you think Taiwan
independence is just and you support Taiwan independence, then you ought to
care the money in the open. Why did you do this stealthily? What
don't you dare to just take the money?

2. Wang Dan, if you think Taiwan
independence is unjust and against the interests of the Chinese people and the
principles of the Chinese constitution and if you do not support Taiwan
independence, then you should not be taking Chen Shui-bian's money.
Otherwise, you are either cheating Chen Shui-bian or the Chinese people.
Either one or the other. You cannot say that you have no shame or
regrets. You must be having nightmares.